Honey, I Instrumented the Kids with InfluxDB!
Parenting is hard. It’s even harder when your kids are sick. But kids are germ factories, and no matter what you do, they get sick. And then you have to touch them and get the germs on you. And then you get...
Sending Alerts from Kapacitor via MQTT
A long long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) I wrote about using this little GlowOrb I had to show alerts from Kapacitor. It was really pretty cool, and I’ve been using it for demos ever since to great...
Time to Awesome Linux Edition
A while back, I did a quick video showing how quickly you could get the TICK Stack up and running on your Mac. It’s since come to my attention that the entire world doesn’t run on Mac OS X. (Where’s that...
Monitoring Your Wireless Interfaces
If you’ve followed my last few posts, you’ll see that I’ve been waist-deep in routers and wireless stuff. I’m building a larger, more complicated ‘reference architecture’ for IoT monitoring with InfluxDB, and to do that, I’m using all sorts of different...
Monitoring OpenWRT with Telegraf
What’s the most popular open source router software in the world? OpenWRT, of course! It’s the go-to firmware replacement for a huge number of routers both for home and business use. So of course, you need to monitor it! Now routers...
A Twitter Chat on IoT and Data
Yesterday (that would be 12/14/2017) I participated in a live Twitter Chat hosted by @rackspace that they call #cloudchat. Apparently this is a regular event that they host, but this latest one was focused specifically on the Internet Of Things, which...
Architecting IoT Gateway Devices for Data Downsampling
There are all sorts of ways to architect your IoT Data Deployment, and what’s right for one enterprise will not necessarily be right for another. Depending on the size and complexity of your IoT project , there can be, of course, a...
Measuring and Monitoring Community Engagement on Discourse with InfluxDB
Monitoring Discourse We here at InfluxData use Discourse for our Community (you’re a member of our Community, right? No? Well, go sign up!!) Part of my job here at InfluxData is to keep my eye on the community, answer questions, and...
Go from Zero to Awesome in 5 Minutes or Less
We here at InfluxData have a thing about Time to Awesome. So much so that we Trademarked it. No, seriously, we did. And we mean it. So let’s go from Zero to Awesome! We are singularly focused on reducing the Time...
ThingMonk 2017: Insight and Learning on IoT
Back in September, I attended the ThingMonk Conference in London. Here is a brief overview of what I learned and some of the insight I gleaned from the conference. The ThingMonk 2017 videos are starting to drop if you want to...